Yevgraf Zhivago

Yevgraf Zhivago was a high ranking Bolshevik during the Russian Revolution. When the Imperial Russian Army served in World War One, Yevgraf was ordered by the Bolsheviks to destabilize the Imperial Army by organising a defeat which would cause the Russian Revolution of 1917. When the Bolsheviks took over Russia and Moscow became a Soviet stronghold, Yevgraf arranged travel papers for his half brother Yuri Zhivago, his wife Tonya Gromecko and her family so they could flee from the new Soviet regime and retreat to Tonya's Varykino estate in the Ural Mountains.

Some time later, following the rise of Stalinism, Yevgraf, now a general in the KGB, arrives at a dam in the hopes of searching for his potential niece Tanya Komarova, the result of an affair between Yevgraf's half brother Yuri and an army nurse named Lara Antipova.